Get started learning the user-centered methods and mindsets that entire businesses are using to improve their product experiences. “Design Thinking” is a core methodology and practice in User Experience Design. Intro to Design Thinking is a 75 minute course from Treehouse teacher Devin O’Bryan.
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“Intro to Design Thinking” Course Details
Throughout this course, we’ll go over how to find the voice of our user, the importance of that voice, and how to create a better experience for our user.
Course Sample
What you’ll learn:
✓ Define Design Thinking
✓ Understand who is your User
✓ Role of Empathy in design
✓ Understand Empathy Maps
✓ Understand Journey Maps
✓ The importance of collecting data for users
✓ Conceive of solutions to common design problems
Course sections:
→ Becoming a Design Thinker
→ Becoming Acquainted with Your User
→ Understanding Your User’s “As-Is” Scenario
→ Designing for Your User’s “To-Be”
→ Tell the Story
What “Design Thinking” is used for
Design Thinking is a broad framework for how to approach problems, understand needs, and generate creative solutions. It’s processes can help us extract, teach, learn and apply human-centered techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way – in our designs, in our businesses, and in our lives.
User Experience Designer Job Statistics
The average base salary for a User Experience Designer is around $98,000, according to the latest statistics from Indeed.com. Companies currently hiring User Experience Designers include Facebook, Sonos, Audible, and many others. If you want to put together a job-ready User Experience Designer portfolio, check out the User Experience (UX) Techdegree program for a project-based curriculum.
Learn User Experience (UX) Design with Treehouse
Intro to Design Thinking includes video instruction, code challenges, quizzes, and more. You can take the Treehouse course for free with a seven day free trial. Then, dive into more UX, Front End Web Development, Python, Computer Science, and JavaScript content with your Treehouse subscription.
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